Post World War II, America
experienced economic woes and massive housing shortages. President Harry S. Truman believed the time was ripe for an entirely new industry — prefabricated and manufactured housing. Carl Strandlund
stepped up to the plate. While the Lustron house — a one-story, gabled-roof ranch with a bay window and side porch — looked like
other postwar-era dwellings, behind its traditional façade lay hopes and expectations for a new era in American housing.